This Just In: Dhl Ran By Brain Damaged Monkeys!

[jdllizard]

Apparently my pen is taking a scenic around the world tour, even after already being in the US once. Take a wild guess where it went next after it passed through US customs in Cinncinati Ohio, on its way to Nebraska?

 

Follow its journey so far by reading the scan points from the bottom up.

 

 

Wonder what the odds are that I'll ever get this package?

*sigh*

Edited November 7, 2015 by jdllizard

[jdllizard]

BTW, when I called and asked why my package that was supposed to arrive today got shipped to Bahrain instead? The lady was very helpful and stated some idiot must have put it on the wrong plane. She sent a message out immediately to try and get it back to me. I should hear from them Monday about it and what's being done to get it to its proper recipient, me.

Edited November 7, 2015 by jdllizard

[GardenWeasel]

What?! Bahrain isn't between Cincinnati and Nebraska? Paying import taxes twice? Does kinda seem the scenic pathway...

[jdllizard]

What?! Bahrain isn't between Cincinnati and Nebraska? Paying import taxes twice? Does kinda seem the scenic pathway...

The woman I spoke with also said the plane stopped in Alaska to refuel before it left for Bahrain. So they even flew over Nebraska, or at least just to the north of us.

 

If it ever gets here, this will be one very well traveled pen!

[dasXFnib]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.....

And the blood pressure......HIGHER!!

It sure ain't what could be called "Economy" shipping, by any stretch!!!

Fingers crossed for its safe arrival.....

 

Always try to get the dibs......on fountain pens with EF nibs!!

[Cryptos]

This one had a similar experience with a pen from the US to New Zealand. Arrived in NZ, promptly set off for Japan. Came back to NZ. Sent off back to the US. Then headed for Israel before finally being returned to... the US! At which point all parties called it a day.

[jdllizard]

This one had a similar experience with a pen from the US to New Zealand. Arrived in NZ, promptly set off for Japan. Came back to NZ. Sent off back to the US. Then headed for Israel before finally being returned to... the US! At which point all parties called it a day.

I remember that story. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I checked the tracking today and saw my pen wound up in Bahrain.

 

Maybe subconsciously that's what possessed me to post my thread here? *shrugs*

Edited November 7, 2015 by jdllizard

[Chrissy]

I would be tempted to contact the CEO of DHL to ask him when your package will arrive, and when will you receive your shipping refund together, with their compensation for this problem.

 

That might tend to focus their minds on getting it to where it should be.

[inkstainedruth]

I remember that story. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I checked the tracking today and saw my pen wound up in Bahrain.

Mine too -- I also remember that tale of woe.

At least be comforted in the knowledge that you sort of know where it is -- even if it isn't Nebraska.... A long time ago I was in a yarn store in central Massachusetts. The owner was on a tear because two of the three packages containing parts for the weaving loom she had ordered for a customer had just gone missing. And Rodeway (the shipping/trucking company involved) had absolutely no *clue* where those two packages had gone.... She was livid. The customer was no doubt livid. The company she had ordered the loom from wasn't all that happy either....

Of course, the 64K question *I* have is why Cincinnati (of all places) is where US Customs was processing and confirming for this package -- rather than someplace like NYC or San Fransisco....

But then, I was once part of a group flying to Edmonton Alberta from Pittsburgh, via Minneapolis. There were vast rigamaroles that happened at both Greater Pitt and Minneapolis concerning the computer that was being treated as carryon luggage (this was way before 9-11). Even though the guy in charge of that piece of carryon had *carefully packed the computer for transport, he had to *unpack* it at security, since he didn't want to send it through the X-ray machine. So at both places (and, at either Edmonton or Minneapolis on the return trip) the guy had to unpack it and plug it in. But because he wasn't bringing a monitor, plugging it in only proved that there was a light and a fan that came on (this was *also* in the days before everyone had a $6.99 flash drive). That's it. A metal box with a fan inside and a red light on the front -- the rest of the box could have been used to smuggle diamonds, for all the security people knew....

But it was good that it *was* being treated as carry-on luggage. Because of the five of us flying up from Pittsburgh, 4 of us had our luggage -- checked straight through to Edmonton, BTW -- not taken off the plane; and the next day, when it *still* hadn't arrived, Northwest instituted a trace (starting back in Pittsburgh). Apparently, the plane went from Edmonton to, IIRC, Denver. And then to Missoula, Montana, where it sat for a day while they tried to figure out whose luggage it was.... My husband and I have never *been* to Missoula, Montana -- but we used to have a duffle bag that did. $50 CDN did not go all that far in the West Edmonton Mall to buy clothes -- and that was before GAT started in Canada (all the ads on TV for big ticket items like cars were saying"Buy NOW, before GAT hits!). My husband had to buy a sweater because his jacket was in the duffle -- we didn't need it in Pittsburgh, and he was afraid of overheating in the airports. Me? I learned not to travel in boots with 3" heels.... The only one of the five who had his suitcase was my husband's boss -- had been running late. And then spent 20 minutes on the phone to his wife because he wasn't a US citizen and had not grabbed his resident alien card -- which he discovered at the Minneapolis international gate... (because of course that was ALSO back when you didn't really need a passport to go to Canada and back -- *IF* you were American, which Ingemar wasn't...). And he'd left his Swedish passport at home for fear he'd lose it -- because, after all, all he needed was the RA card. Except that he'd grabbed his son's in the rush....

Not sure who was more PO'd at Northwest. The guy who'd packed the computer CPU or the guy missing his $600 rod and reel....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sasha Royale]

[jdllizard]

Well according to tracking it has now departed Bahrain. Let's see where it winds up now! Djibouti?

[inkstainedruth]

Well according to tracking it has now departed Bahrain. Let's see where it winds up now! Djibouti?

How about McMurdo Station? (Sorry, not helpful... but I just couldn't help myself....)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[bizhe]

If each country put its postmark on the package, at least you'd have a memento.

[jdllizard]

Well it appears my pen made it back from its long detour through Bahrain, and according to the latest tracking, I should have it in my hands tomorrow!

 

Unless of course they screw up again and send if off to Istanbul or Timbuktu first.

 

 

Fingers crossed!

[amarjit]

Well it appears my pen made it back from its long detour through Bahrain, and according to the latest tracking, I should have it in my hands tomorrow!

 

Unless of course they screw up again and send if off to Istanbul or Timbuktu first.

 

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Fingers crossed!

Now you have a Multinational Pen which travelled around the world. Hope you get it soon.

[flipper_gv]

I did work at some point in my life a lot with shipping companies and DHL were BY FAR the worst.

[jdllizard]

The pen arrived today, safe and sound!

 

I am now, with a big thanks to Ronpro for pointing me in the right direction, the proud new owner of a very well traveled, NIB LAMY Al Star in BlueGreen!

[Runnin_Ute]

Glad to see if finally arrived!!